GALLERY III

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All prints on the GALLERY5X7 site are original, handcrafted alternative process photographs available for purchase.

Interested in purchasing a print? Reach out to the artist using the links provided in each gallery.

“Loch Rannoch. Trees” © Iván B. Pallí. “Trees on the snowy shore of Loch Rannoch, Scotland." Approx. 14x20cm hand-printed silver gelatin lith print on Unibrom paper. Signed and numbered original print, edition 1/5, offered at $250.

Iván B. Pallí

Iván Bernal Pallí has been doing traditional wet darkroom photography since 2003. He initially studied photography in Barcelona and since then he has further developed his work experimenting with different techniques.

Since 2010 Iván has been working with the lith process. Lith printing uses a special developer that produces colourful images on traditional black and white photographic paper. Additionally, the prints show dark and grainy shadows with delicate highlights and mid-tones. The results differ depending on the choice of paper and several other factors such as developer temperature or dilution, offering the lith printer a wide range of possibilities for interpreting a negative. Moreover, most papers suitable for this process are no longer manufactured, being only available through the second-hand market. They are often decades old and stored in conditions less than ideal for photographic material. Nonetheless, these papers can often yield interesting results that positively contribute to the final look of the print.

An important part of Iván’s creative process is the use of vintage cameras which, in his opinion, render reality differently than modern equipment.

Iván’s work is influenced by Romanticism and the Pictorialism art movements and it is very atmospheric, highly focused on aesthetics and has a unique dream-like quality.

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"Tulip" © Graciana Piaggio. Approx. 9x12“ (23x30cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (tri-color gum bichromate over cyanotype) on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag. Signed original print offered by GALLERY5X7.

Graciana Piaggio

The work of Graciana focus on the idea of transformation through time. Her photography tries to capture the constant changes occurring to objects and living things but remain unnoticed to the naked eye. The effect that chance has during the artistic process (in the form of small accidents which are out of her control) is also very important in her work.

Graciana’s beginnings in art were as a painter and later she turned to photography. She has experimented with several alternative processes including Tricolor Gum Bichromate, Cyanotype, Ziatype, Lumens, Chlorophyll Prints, among others. By specializing in gum bichromate printing, she has found the possibility to express herself pictorially.

Essential to her creative process is the possibility to be able to work with her hands and, at the same time, create unrepeatable copies, influencing the printing process through the choice of different types of papers, pigments, and the color palette she chooses.

Graciana believes that gum bichromate is maybe the alternative processes where more evidence of the artist’s traces can be discovered, by way of his or her brushstroke and gestures, as the process gives the artist a unique opportunity to work by adding layer after layer to the print and to slowly build the image, by letting it grow over time and with patience.

Her work has been exhibited in her home country Argentina, in Europe and in the United States.

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"Calypso" © Victor Senkov. "Calypso" is a part of the 2018 series “Nymphs and other Goddesses.” Approx. 5.1x5.1" (13x13cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (cyanotype, toned). GALLERY5X7 offers this signed, numbered and stamped original artist print at $500.

Victor Senkov

Victor Senkov was born in Mogilev, Belarus. Victor is an accomplished photographer, curator and member of the Belarusian Association of Photographers and Belarusian Union of Designers.

Victor is interested in art photo, concept photography, alternative photography and printing. He has participated in more than thirty national and international exhibitions, and was recently nominated for the “National Prize for the Fine Arts 2019 – 2020” for the project “Memory Remains.” Victor organized and worked on more than fifteen national and international exhibitions and curatorial projects of photography and graphic art with government and private galleries and museums as a curator. His prints are held in galleries in Slovenia, Ecuador and private collections around the world.

Victor lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

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"Stone Pines” © Marc Sirinsky. Approx. 4.75x6.5" hand-transfer print on masa paper from antique bakelite camera negative. Original, signed, editioned (1/6) print offered at $250.

Marc Sirinsky

Marc Sirinsky creates alternative process photography that incorporates a combination of traditional and contemporary methods.  Simultaneously transitory and everlasting, his imagery reflects a personal state of emotion while also speaking to the fleeting nature of our collective memories as human beings.

Marc’s work has appeared in numerous publications and in over 50 juried, solo and group exhibitions. A native of Chicago, he now resides in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC.

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"Avant l’automne" © Xavier Vanlaere. Approx. 2.8x3.5" (7x9cm) handcrated alternative process photograph (silver gelatin print) developed in darkroom with a paintbrush on multigrafe FB photographic paper. GALLERY5X7 offers this signed, original print at $250.

Xavier Vanlaere

Xavier Vanlaere’s passion for images came early in life when, as a child, he went to his father’s professional studio and witnessed in the glowing darkness the slow revelation of the film image. Xavier collected the black and white trial proofs from his father’s darkroom and colored them with markers, recomposing landscapes and drawing on portraits to make new creations.

In 1998, Xavier set up his own photography workshop and darkroom near Marseille, France. Since that time he has worked on long-term themes that he explores over several years: portraits, cities at dawn, etc. Each of his photographic subjects become a personal exploration allowing him to meet people, discover other universes – to learn, to grow.  Sensitive to the beauty of things, to the fragility of the moment, Xavier fixes his visual impressions to keep and watch.

But for Xavier capturing the image is only the beginning, as the final print does not yet exist. It is in his studio that he slowly builds it and where it ultimately takes a final form. He attaches great importance to obtaining the final object – the one he has pre-visualized or the one that offers itself to him in sometimes surprising and unpredictable ways. And if the technique requires discipline, rigor and the application of a precise protocol, Xavier also leaves room for failures and experimentation because he knows that processing “errors” sometimes give rise to singular and unexpected beauty, opening up new avenues of creativity.

Xavier lives and works in the south of France, leading photography workshops in the city of Marseille.

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“Grand Canyon National Park" © Tom Wise. Fog uplift near Duck Rock at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Approx. 14x21" (35.6x53.3cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (gum bichromate over cyanotype). GALLERY5X7 offers this signed, original print at $1,000.

Tom Wise

Tom Wise is a landscape and nature photographer currently living in the “Land of Enchantment,” New Mexico. Tom’s interest in photography was instilled by his father who loved nothing more than to photograph the prairies of Nebraska, then return to his basement darkroom to develop film and make silver gelatin prints.

Tom spent his adult life as an educator in Nebraska, returning to photography as he neared retirement. He discovered the joys of creating alternative process photographic prints at a gum bichromate workshop taught by the inimitable Christina Z. Anderson. As a result of the workshop, Tom has strived to refine his processes in gum printing as well as cyanotype, kallitype and combinations of these mediums.

Tom’s prints were accepted in the “Altered Reality” juried show at the Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. He is also featured as one of the contemporary artists in the book “Digital Negatives with QuadTone RIP: Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers” by Ron Reeder and Christina Z. Anderson.

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"Santa Maria Della Salute" © Daniel Zilbersheid. Approx. 10.5x14.5" (26.7x36.8cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (gumoil). GALLERY5X7 offers this signed, original print at $300.

Daniel Zilbersheid

Daniel Zilbersheid is an analytical chemist living in Israel working in the laboratory of Professor Barenholtz. Daniel creates beautiful prints using the GumOil method, a photographic printing process that uses a sensitizing gum arabic mix and oil paint, to create a handmade photograph. Leveraging his background in chemistry, Daniel has been developing and improving various handmade photo printing methods (without digital processing) for many years.

Daniel’s prints are being exhibited in Israel and abroad.

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